Bigger Forum Button

Chris · March 31st, 2006, 00:34

The person on the frontpage is the third time i've seen this happen to. It must happen a lot more than those three.

what say you?

Rival24 · March 31st, 2006, 01:03

How about a bigger topic start?

I'm guessing you're talking about the guy who couldn't find the forum in this post.

Chris · March 31st, 2006, 01:09

Yeah. The comment system that's already there is fine, but I think a lot of people just assume that's as far as the public involvement goes.

Maybe it's just me.

Rival24 · March 31st, 2006, 01:15

We are aware of this problem and it will be resolved one day

Curry · March 31st, 2006, 01:26

Very aware

Rest assured both forum and wiki will get lots more FP attention soon-ish

trj156 · March 31st, 2006, 04:27

noooooo we dont need a shinier forum button, shiny things attract idiots.i came here because of the lack of idiot-ness.

ONI 23 · March 31st, 2006, 10:28

Here, Here. I say smaller forum button. If you aren't attentive enough to READ the website you are on then we don't need you posting in the forum!

Chris · March 31st, 2006, 12:15

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Originally Posted by ONI 23

Here, Here. I say smaller forum button. If you aren't attentive enough to READ the website you are on then we don't need you posting in the forum!

This site has 2 'Forums' in a way. The comments on the FP is the only one to the untrained eye. Not everyone is associated with web 2.0 yet.

Rival24 · March 31st, 2006, 13:41

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Originally Posted by ONI 23

Here, Here. I say smaller forum button. If you aren't attentive enough to READ the website you are on then we don't need you posting in the forum!

If we don't want someone here, we use our little 'ban' button

Nino · March 31st, 2006, 15:00

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Originally Posted by Rival24

If we don't want someone here, we use our little 'ban' button

I tried that once but then you got mad at me and said that you wanted your account back

Chris · March 31st, 2006, 18:52

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Originally Posted by Nino

I tried that once but then you got mad at me and said that you wanted your account back

haha

.

Rival24 · March 31st, 2006, 21:36

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Originally Posted by Chris

haha

.

That's not the whole story.. his mom is involved..

Neejoh · March 31st, 2006, 22:04

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Originally Posted by Rival24

That's not the whole story.. his mom is involved..

haha yeah, I've heard you hit on her but she kicked you in the balls?

Rival24 · March 31st, 2006, 22:23

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Originally Posted by Neejoh

haha yeah, I've heard you hit on her but she kicked you in the balls?

No kicking...

Chris · April 1st, 2006, 00:46

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Originally Posted by Rival24

No kicking...

Just licking?

Rival24 · April 1st, 2006, 01:25

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Originally Posted by Chris

Just licking?

How about we discuss that button mmkay?

Chris · April 1st, 2006, 02:34

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Originally Posted by Rival24

How about we discuss that button mmkay?

Ah yes, buttons buttons buttons. Bigger buttons.

Curry · April 3rd, 2006, 15:20

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Originally Posted by Chris

This site has 2 'Forums' in a way. The comments on the FP is the only one to the untrained eye. Not everyone is associated with web 2.0 yet.

Actually I visit lots of site which have both a comments system for news and a real forum

The main difference ofcourse is that on the FP 'we' provide the topicstart by definition

Chris · April 3rd, 2006, 19:35

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Originally Posted by Curry

Actually I visit lots of site which have both a comments system for news and a real forum

The main difference ofcourse is that on the FP 'we' provide the topicstart by definition

I visit those sites too. Most of the time their forums are crap, so people avoid them. This forum seems to have a mature crowd which is nice. I wish all forums were as stable and civil as this one.

Emily · April 4th, 2006, 00:18

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Originally Posted by Chris

I visit those sites too. Most of the time their forums are crap, so people avoid them. This forum seems to have a mature crowd which is nice. I wish all forums were as stable and civil as this one.

don't pretend to know anything about maturity, darling

Curry · April 4th, 2006, 02:45

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Originally Posted by Chris

I visit those sites too. Most of the time their forums are crap, so people avoid them. This forum seems to have a mature crowd which is nice. I wish all forums were as stable and civil as this one.

The site I have been an admin on for the last 2 years has the most respected technical forum of the Netherlands. It is ranked 18th worldwide on busiest boards and is completely clean of bullshit and immature shit

Curry · April 4th, 2006, 04:19

Public beta: Xboxic's new frontpage!

I think this problem is solved this way

Curry · April 5th, 2006, 17:44

7 or 8 new forum registrations already in the 16 hours since the new template went live. Suppose it is working indeed

Chris · April 5th, 2006, 20:18

I do like it. People were judging it because it doesn't feel natural to them yet. I think once they're on it for a couple of days, they'll love it because they won't have to think anymore.

Curry · April 5th, 2006, 22:13

It's natural for people to object to change. Change disturbs things

I've seen it happen when a forum with 150k registered users changed its template, I was in charge of 'customer support' at the time. In 3 days over 3000 posts with complaints were posted. Two weeks later even the worst complainers admitted quietly that they were liking it now.

I've offered the old template, that's all I can do. I don't care about keeping the old one online for the few people that object to change, and they'll drop it anyway once the seams start to break because of the news template's bigger versatility.

Having said that, I'll be checking logs for how many visitors are still using the old template

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